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SUMMARY OF MAJOR CHANGES TO 

DoD 7000.14-R, VOLUME 1, CHAPTER 4 

“STANDARD FINANCIAL INFORMATION STRUCTURE (SFIS)” 

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PARAGRAPH EXPLANATION OF CHANGE/REVISION PURPOSE 

Various Updated hyperlinks to include the link to the Compliance 

Checklist for the Standard Financial Information Structure 

(SFIS). 

Update 

0406 Generalized Office of the Under Secretary of Defense 

(Comptroller) roles and responsibilities. 

Update 

0407 Deleted the Demand Unique Identifier (DUID) data 

element and the associated business rules from the 

Checklist for the SFIS. The DUID concept is being 

replaced by the Financial Data In Procurement (FDIP) 

initiative based upon policy in the Office of the Under 

Secretary of Defense memorandum of March 18, 2009, 

titled “Linking Financial Data to Contract Documents”. 

Update 

0408 Updated information included on the SFIS Resource Page. Update 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

STANDARD FINANCIAL INFORMATION STRUCTURE (SFIS)

0401 Purpose 

0402 Authoritative Guidance 

0403 Definitions 

0404 Applicability and Scope 

 

0405 SFIS Relationships 

Ë 0406 Roles and Responsibilities 

Ë 0407 Investment Review Board (IRB) SFIS Requirements 

Ë 0408 SFIS Resource Page 

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CHAPTER 4 

STANDARD FINANCIAL INFORMATION STRUCTURE (SFIS)

0401 PURPOSE

040101. This chapter prescribes the requirements of the Standard Financial 

Information Structure (SFIS) as a common business language that enables budgeting, 

performance-based management, and the generation of financial statements. The SFIS is a 

comprehensive data structure that supports requirements for budgeting, financial accounting, 

cost/performance, and external reporting needs across the Department of Defense (DoD) 

enterprise. 

040102. The SFIS standardizes financial reporting across the DoD and allows 

revenues and expenses to be reported by programs that align with major goals, rather than basing 

reporting primarily on appropriation categories. It also enables decision-makers to efficiently 

compare programs and their associated activities and costs across DoD and provides a basis for 

common valuation of DoD programs, assets, and liabilities. 

040103. The initial development phase (Phase I) identified and defined data 

elements needed to support the generation of financial statements and external reporting. SFIS 

Phases II and III address enterprise-wide code accounting requirements to provide the DoD with 

a better valuation of the total cost of business. 

0402 AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE

040201. Subsection 2222(d)(1) of title 10, United States Code (U.S.C), requires 

that the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) include an information infrastructure that, 

at a minimum, would enable the DoD to: 

 A. Comply with all Federal accounting, financial management, and reporting 

requirements; 

B. Routinely produce timely, accurate, and reliable financial management 

information; 

C. Integrate budget, accounting, and program information and systems; and 

D. Provide for the systematic measurement of performance to include the 

ability to produce timely, relevant, and reliable cost information. 

040202. Subsection 2222(d)(2) of title 10, U.S.C., requires establishment of 

policies, procedures, data standards, and system interface requirements that are to apply 

uniformly throughout the DoD. 

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040203. Section 902a.3 of the Chief Financial Officers Act requires an agency to 

develop and maintain an integrated agency accounting and financial management system, 

including financial reporting and internal controls, which: 

A. Complies with applicable accounting principles standards and 

requirements, and internal control standards; 

B. Complies with such policies and requirements as may be prescribed by the 

Director of the Office of Management and Budget; 

C. Complies with any other requirements applicable to such systems; and 

D. Provides for: 

1. Complete, reliable, consistent, and timely information which is 

prepared on a uniform basis and which is responsive to the financial information needs of agency 

management; 

2. Development and reporting of cost information; 

3. The integration of accounting and budgeting information; and 

4. Systematic measurement of performance.

040204. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-127 requires 

agencies’ financial management systems to reflect an agency-wide financial information 

classification structure that is consistent with the United States Standard General Ledger 

(USSGL). 

040205. The Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA) of 1996

requires agencies to incorporate accounting standards and reporting objectives established for the 

Federal Government into their financial management systems so that all the assets and liabilities, 

revenues, expenditures or expenses, and the full costs of programs and activities of the Federal 

Government can be consistently and accurately recorded, monitored, and uniformly reported 

throughout the Federal Government. 

040206. The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 requires 

annual performance reporting that links performance planned to performance achieved. 

040207. The OMB, Office of Federal Financial Management (OFFM) requires, 

within each department or agency, accounting classification elements and definitions to be 

standardized to ensure uniform and efficient accounting treatment, classification, and reporting. 

0403 DEFINITIONS

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040301. Standard Data. Standard data relates to information that is transmitted, 

processed, maintained, and/or accessed in a standard format. It is a structured communication 

medium that is to be exchanged between and within entities and other groups for business 

transactions. The standards describe structures that emulate documents. For example, purchase 

orders to automate purchasing. The standard data is also used to refer to the implementation and 

operation of systems and processes for creating, transmitting, and receiving information. It 

simplifies the aggregation of data, limiting crosswalks and mapping procedures. 

 040302. Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA). The BEA: 

A. Is the enterprise architecture for the DoD Business Mission Area (BMA). 

B. Defines the DoD business transformation priorities, the business 

capabilities required to support those priorities, and the combinations of enterprise systems and 

initiatives that enable those capabilities. 

 C. Uses a set of integrated DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) products, 

to include All View (AV), Operational View (OV), Systems and Services View (SV), and 

Technical Standards View (TV) products to develop its overall structure/framework. 

D. Includes activities, processes, data, information exchanges, business rules, 

system functions, system data exchanges, terms, and linkages to laws, regulations, and policies. 

0404 APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE

040401. The SFIS is required for all target systems and legacy business feeder 

systems that will interface with a target system, as identified in the Enterprise Transition Plan

(ETP) that support financial transactions. 

040402. The SFIS provides an enterprise-wide standard for categorizing financial 

information along several dimensions to support financial management and financial reporting 

functions; enable decision makers to efficiently compare similar programs and activities across 

DoD; and provide a level of detail required for information retrieval and auditability. 

0405 SFIS RELATIONSHIPS

 040501. The SFIS contains a USSGL transaction library. For additional 

information on the SFIS relationship to the USSGL refer to Volume 1, Chapter 7, paragraph

070405 of this Regulation. 

 040502. The SFIS is the BEA financial data standard and is integrated into the 

BEA. SFIS changes will be updated with subsequent BEA releases. 

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Ë0406 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

040601. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (OUSD(C))

A. Serves in a leadership role relative to facilitating and providing oversight 

for the development of DoD-Wide enterprise business and financial systems to include process 

solutions supporting the implementation of the SFIS. 

B. Serves as primary member of the SFIS Governance Board, is responsible 

for providing stewardship for SFIS financial data elements, and serves as a primary 

representative on the Defense Business System Management Committee (DBSMC) and 

Investment Review Boards (IRB) (reference paragraph 040605 of this chapter). 

C. Provides business and financial system insight on all issues presented at 

committee/board meetings and serves as the primary office of responsibility for actions 

stemming from the DBSMC and the IRB. 

 

040602. The Business Transformation Agency (BTA). The BTA facilitates the 

governance of the SFIS Board, but is not a voting member. The mission of the BTA is to guide 

the transformation of business operations throughout DoD and to deliver Enterprise-level 

capabilities that align to warfighter needs. Primarily, the BTA is responsible for developing the 

BEA (reference paragraph 040302 of this chapter) and ensuring that decisions made by the SFIS 

Governance Board are reflected in the BEA. 

040603. The SFIS Governance Board. This board is a cross-agency, functional 

working group responsible for approving all changes to the SFIS. All changes must be vetted 

with the board before the SFIS can be updated. Voting members of the SFIS Governance Board 

include but are not limited to the following Defense Components: 

A. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD): 

1. Comptroller, Program/Budget 

2. Comptroller, Deputy Chief Financial Officer 

3. Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT&L), Installations and 

Environments 

4. AT&L, Materiel Readiness and Maintenance Policy 

5. AT&L, Resources and Analysis 

6. Directorate for Program Analysis and Evaluation 

7. Directorate for Personnel and Readiness (P&R)

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B. Other Defense Organizations (ODOs): 

1. Defense Finance and Accounting Service 

2. Defense Logistics Agency 

3. Missile Defense Agency 

C. Military Departments (MILDEPs): 

1. The Department of the Army 

2. The Department of the Navy 

3. United States Marine Corps 

4. The Department of the Air Force 

D. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) 

040604. The Military Departments and the Defense Agencies are responsible for 

implementing SFIS for all applicable target systems, asserting compliance with SFIS by using 

the Compliance Checklist for the SFIS (reference paragraph 040701 of this chapter) and 

maintaining their systems consistent with SFIS requirements. 

040605. Investment Review Process

A. The DoD has implemented a business systems investment review process 

(referred to as the IRB process) led by the Deputy Secretary of Defense. The Deputy Secretary 

of Defense chairs the Defense Business Systems Management Committee (DBSMC), established 

pursuant to section 186 of title 10, U.S.C., with membership consisting of the Under Secretary of 

Defense (USD) for AT&L, USD for P&R, USD (Comptroller) (USD(C)), Assistant Secretary of 

Defense (ASD) for Networks and Information Integration (NII), Secretaries of the Military 

Departments, and the heads of the Defense Agencies under section 2222 of title 10, U.S.C.. 

B. Investment Review Boards have been established under the responsibility 

of USD(AT&L), USD(P&R), USD(C), and ASD(NII), who exercise investment responsibility 

under section 2222(f) of title 10, U.S.C. A primary goal of the IRB process is to facilitate 

development and implementation of integrated business systems across-DoD business functions 

and capabilities to provide a framework for effective investment decision-making, thereby, 

enabling the DoD’s senior leadership to guide investments to maximize the impact to the 

warfighter. Ultimately, through effective application of the IRB process, the IRBs operate to 

define and levy SFIS conditions. 

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Ë0407 INVESTMENT REVIEW BOARD (IRB) SFIS REQUIREMENTS

 

040701. SFIS Compliance. The FM IRB requires: 

A. All systems receiving either a Target Accounting or Target Business 

Feeder System complete a Compliance Checklist for the SFIS and obtain approval for systems 

implementation from the BTA. 

B. The Compliance Checklist for the SFIS is to be completed in accordance 

with the comprehensive instructions detailed within the Compliance Checklist for the SFIS

under the section titled How to Use this Checklist. 

040702. SFIS Implementation Plan

A. A system Implementation Plan must be submitted for all system 

development initiatives (in addition to the Compliance Checklist for the SFIS that is consistent 

with the ETP. 

B. The extent of the Implementation Plan varies with the SFIS condition 

levied on the system by the IRB. Once a system comes through one of the IRBs, it will be 

notified of the condition and what is required as a response. The response must be complete and 

all dates must be provided in Month/Year format for the condition to be considered closed. 

Ë0408 SFIS RESOURCE PAGE

 040801. The SFIS Resource Page displays the following SFIS tools for use by 

system implementers and users. 

A. Matrix (SFIS data elements, definitions, examples, business rules, 

syntaxes, primary stewards, authoritative sources, required reports, and Extensible Markup 

Language (XML) Schemas); 

B. Compliance Checklist (see section 0407 of this chapter for further details); 

C. USSGL Transaction Library and Case Studies; 

D. Values Library Services; 

E. Chart of Accounts Implementation Guidance; 

F. Implementation Master Schedule;

G. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Standard Configurations;

H. Online Tutorial; and

I. Frequently Asked Questions.